The EPRC Podcast

In this episode of the EPRC Podcast, guest Anna Yusim, MD, sits down with our host Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square to discuss the science of spirituality. 

Dr. Anna Yusim is an internationally-recognized, award-winning, Board-Certified, Stanford and Yale-educated Psychiatrist & Executive Coach with a Private Practice in New York, California, Connecticut ,and Florida. She is the best-selling author of Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life. As a Clinical Assistant Professor at Yale Medical School, Dr. Yusim is presently creating a Mental Health & Spirituality Center at Yale. With clients including Forbes 500 CEOs, Olympic athletes, A-list actors and actresses, and the Chairs of academic departments at top universities, Dr. Anna Yusim has helped over 3000 people achieve greater impact, purpose, and joy in their life and work.

After working as a neurobiology researcher with Dr. Robert Sapolsky Ph.D. and completing her studies at Stanford, Yale Medical School, and the NYU Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Dr. Yusim felt that something was missing from her life. In her quest to find it, she traveled, lived and worked in over 70 countries, while studying Kabbalah, learning Buddhist meditation, and working with South American shamans and Indian gurus.

Dr. Yusim has published over 150 academic articles, book chapters, scientific abstracts, book reviews, and articles for the lay public on various topics in psychiatry. A frequent contributor to CNN, Fox News, ABC, and NBC, she has been a guest on hundreds of national and international TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts.

As a highly sought-after speaker, Dr. Yusim gives keynotes for physicians and professionals all over the country and the world on topics related to mental health and spirituality, preventing burnout, physicians as meaning-makers, and resilience. For healthcare professionals, corporate leaders, and community members, she also conducts workshops to empower individuals to sharpen their intuition, cultivate authenticity, awaken self-compassion, enhance their capacity for empathy, and improve their ability to connect with others.

In 2020, Dr. Yusim received the top honor granted to an American psychiatrist, being named a Distinguished Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association. Other awards and distinctions include her book, Fulfilled, being ranked #1 New Release on Amazon in its category.  Fulfilled was also voted Top Book of 2017 by Spirituality and Health Magazine, and voted by Forbes magazine as 1 of 23 life-changing books you need to read, along with Pablo Coelho’s The Alchemist, Eckhart Tolle’s The New Earth and Louise Hays’ You Can Heal Your Life. Other awards include the Illinois Math and Science Academy Alumni Trailblazer Award, National Institute of Mental Health Outstanding Research Resident Award, the American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship, the William Webb Fellowship from the Academy for Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Psychiatric Institute for Research & Education (APIRE) Janssen Research Award, the Seed Research Grant from the American Medical Association, First Prize in the Sermo Resident Challenge, the Carta Fellowship from the World Psychiatric Association, the Janet M. Glasgow- Rubin Award for Women Leaders at Yale Medical School, the William F. Downs Fellowship for International Research, the Max Kade Fellowship, the Samuel F. and Sara G. Feinman Scholarship for Leadership, the Foreman Fleisher Foundation Scholarship for Academic Excellence, the Golden Award for Top Thesis written in the Humanities at Stanford University, the Hoefzer Prize for Top Essay Written in Stanford University Course, the Bessie F. Lawrence International Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation Scholarship. 

Thank you very much to Alexandre Bergeron for editing this episode!

In this episode of the EPRC Podcast, guest Bree Greenberg, LMFT, sits down with our hosts -- Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square, and Mariam J. Saleh, Esq. -- to discuss models of innovative care. This is Part I of a two-part episode.

Bree has a passion for creating individual, organizational and global creative liberatory change. She has been envisioning systems of care that challenge current thinking for two decades. With a deep reverence for the mystery of healing, Bree synthesizes many systems to present a breadth of understanding about oppressive systems, addiction and healthcare that is rarely spoken for. Her knowledge base draws from her extensive experience in transpersonal and systems psychology, contemplative practices, yoga and eastern medicine. She teaches large organizations to alchemize change at the deepest levels while creating sustainable systems that aim practitioners and clients toward liberation. Her model lives at the intersection of biochemistry, physics, developmental psychology and mystical spirituality. Her clarity and compassionate understanding of the challenges we all face as humans brings an honesty to her care, her teaching and the systems she designs. She is the founder of the former Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy which opened in 2010 and was one of the first mental health centers to combine ancient systems of healing interwoven with current cutting edge systems of care. She is known for her dynamic speaking presence and her ability to weave disparate elements into new forms that change view, conversation, and care. Bree is an adjunct faculty member of Darthmouth, and has spoken extensively at institutions, hospitals, conferences and universities on topics in integrative medicine, eating disorders and addictions. She has trained and supervised over 150 practitioners from disciplines ranging from internal medicine to yoga therapy. She is also a value member of the Board of Directors at Emergence Benefactors in connection with the EPRC.

Thank you very much to Alexandre Bergeron for editing this episode!

In this episode of the EPRC Podcast, guest Bree Greenberg, LMFT, sits down with our hosts -- Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square, and Mariam J. Saleh, Esq. -- to discuss models of innovative care. This is Part I of a two-part episode.

Bree has a passion for creating individual, organizational and global creative liberatory change. She has been envisioning systems of care that challenge current thinking for two decades. With a deep reverence for the mystery of healing, Bree synthesizes many systems to present a breadth of understanding about oppressive systems, addiction and healthcare that is rarely spoken for. Her knowledge base draws from her extensive experience in transpersonal and systems psychology, contemplative practices, yoga and eastern medicine. She teaches large organizations to alchemize change at the deepest levels while creating sustainable systems that aim practitioners and clients toward liberation. Her model lives at the intersection of biochemistry, physics, developmental psychology and mystical spirituality. Her clarity and compassionate understanding of the challenges we all face as humans brings an honesty to her care, her teaching and the systems she designs. She is the founder of the former Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy which opened in 2010 and was one of the first mental health centers to combine ancient systems of healing interwoven with current cutting edge systems of care. She is known for her dynamic speaking presence and her ability to weave disparate elements into new forms that change view, conversation, and care. Bree is an adjunct faculty member of Darthmouth, and has spoken extensively at institutions, hospitals, conferences and universities on topics in integrative medicine, eating disorders and addictions. She has trained and supervised over 150 practitioners from disciplines ranging from internal medicine to yoga therapy. She is also a value member of the Board of Directors at Emergence Benefactors in connection with the EPRC.

Thank you very much to Alexandre Bergeron for editing this episode!

In this episode of the EPRC Podcast, Sam Tullman (MPH, BCN), Head of Clinical Research at Quilt Technologies, tells host Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square about his research, including a Phase I clinical trial of n,n–DMT in Brazil for the treatment of depression. Sam is an EPRC member and a researcher and consultant in the study of Emergent practices, with primary focuses in EEG and behavior change. He received a degree in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania and an MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Washington, and he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study the neurophysiological and behavioral impacts of psychedelic substances indigenous to Brazil. His research in emergence also includes a pilot study looking at the impact of neurofeedback on interoceptive awareness and the study of the neurological mechanics of people recognizing things they know–like their sense of self. Sam has spent the last few years of his professional life consulting in the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) space, architecting the EEG training strategy for FIELD Neuroscience Solutions, and aiding in developing “mental state” classifiers and training strategies for Atai Life Sciences’ Psyber Health. He now works at Quilt Technologies as the Head of Clinical Research, helping build machine learning models that predict mental health using phone data. His overarching interest is allowing transformative practices and experiences to be more accessible to the general population, which brings together his work in Health Communications, Psychedelic Neuroscience, and BCI. He is also a dedicated student of Rinzai Zen but draws heavily in his practice from other Buddhist traditions and from modern Western psychology & Neuroscience.

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In this episode of the EPRC Podcast, Dr. Daniel M. Ingram (MD MSPH) speaks to EPRC member Dr. Julieta Galante (MD PhD) about her research on meditation and mental health and how it relates to the work of the EPRC. Dr. Galante is a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. She is a qualified medical doctor specializing in public mental health research. For over a decade, Dr. Galante has been winning competitive funding to study the potential of meditation techniques for mental health promotion. Her research uses rigorous research methods in real-world scenarios. It has been featured in international media outlets, influenced clinical guidelines, and it has been presented to a wide range of audiences, from international conferences and science festivals to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

In this episode of the EPRC Podcast, host Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square speaks to EPRC member Dr. Emma Bragdon, a transpersonal psychologist and a pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence/emergency. Dr. Bragdon is interested in putting practical shoes on theories and research surrounding spiritual awakening/spiritual emergence and crises people may have in their awakenings.

Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square interviews Dr. Martin Huecker, ER doctor, Research Director at the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Louisville, EPRC member, co-editor in chief of the Journal of Wellness. They discuss his background, relationship to emergent phenomena, and why he believes this is a critical issue to study at this time, and many other topics. Enjoy!

The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC) is dedicated to bringing high quality scientific methods to scaling global knowledge of what many would call spiritual, mystical, psi/magical, energetic, and related phenomena — what we call emergent phenomena— to the clinical, mental health, and scientific mainstreams. In this introductory episode to the EPRC Podcast, Gareth Gwyn and Daniel M. Ingram have a detailed discussion of the EPRC, its origins, goals, methods, ethics, vision, purpose, and much more. If you are interested in understanding the EPRC, this is a great place to start. This is the audio portion of this video: https://youtu.be/fLtPc3AzWf0